Successful precision landings: 15 acceptances in 2021!
The regional focus was on the acceptance of five projects in North America and three in China. Two further plants were accepted in Turkey, and one each in Thailand, Vietnam, India, Russia and Brazil.
The 2021 acceptances clearly reflect Siempelkamp's positioning in the wood-based panel industry - 14 plants benefit this market, another one will serve the composites industry. In the Asian market, plants for MDF production formed the focus, while the other projects were realized for particleboard or OSB production. One short-cycle press line was accepted in North America and one in Brazil, and a multi-daylight line for OSB production was also accepted in North America. All other plants for the wood-based panel industry accepted in 2021 will be producing according to the ContiRoll® concept.
15 acceptances at global customers represented a special achievement in the exceptional year 2021: "The ongoing pandemic situation with the associated travel restrictions and quarantine conditions was ambitious. In addition, the workload of the projects shifted from 2020 to 2021 due to the corona-related interruptions at the customer construction sites; the same applies to the seven start-ups we carried out in 2021," says Egbert Schulte, who as head of project management, claims management, and logistics at Siempelkamp had to consider many special framework conditions with his team. It was also important that personal coordination with plant operators on site could take place less intensively than usual due to the special situation in 2021. Nine of the accepted plants are produced by Siempelkamp regular customers, six by new customers, so that the respective dialog took place under different conditions and requirements.
"All these successful acceptances are based on our very good preparation phases and the willingness of our start-up specialists to work even under permanently changing travel and quarantine conditions. In cases where we were nevertheless limited, projects could be realized by using the remote service for additional plant components. Ultimately, each individual acceptance could only be carried out this successfully because the contact with all customers was as intensive as it was constructive. For this we would like to express our sincere thanks to all those involved," says Jürgen Philipps, spokesman for the management board of Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH.
Siempelkamp recently proved its expertise with the successful start-up of the first plant in Vietnam which processes acacia wood - a challenging raw material in the production process. Mekong Wood will also mainly use acacia and eucalyptus as raw material. One more reason to rely on Siempelkamp in view of the excellent performance of the premiere plant.
